Alexander Borodin Petite Suite for Orchestra Orchestration by Aleksandr Glazunov Au Couvent: Andante religioso 00:00 Intermezzo: Tempo di menuetto 04:35 Mazurka: Allegro 09:54 Mazurka: Allegretto 13:33 Rêverie: Andante 17:20 Sérénade: Allegretto 20:23 Finale: Scherzo – Nocturne – Scherzo: Allegro vivace – Andantino – Allegretto 22:32
Royal Stockholm Philarmonic Orchestra Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Glazunov orchestrated the Petite Suite which Borodin had composed for the piano. The Suite pictures ‘the love of a young girl’, reflected by the frequent marking ‘amoroso’.